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We value the broad spectrum of human experience. We work continuously to create an open atmosphere with meaningful opportunities to learn for all students, faculty and staff. Our mission To support the University’s commitment to respecting personal identities of each community member. To suggest avenues for recourse for individuals or groups found responsible for engaging in bias-related incidents. To make recommendations for educational interventions to help the larger University community deepen awareness and fluency on the diversity of human experience. To make recommendations for avenues of support for specific communities that may be impacted by bias-related incidents. To provide recommendations…
We value the broad spectrum of human experience. We work continuously to create an open atmosphere with meaningful opportunities to learn for all students, faculty and staff. Our mission To support the University’s commitment to respecting personal identities of each community member. To suggest avenues for recourse for individuals or groups found responsible for engaging in bias-related incidents. To make recommendations for educational interventions to help the larger University community deepen awareness and fluency on the diversity of human experience. To make recommendations for avenues of support for specific communities that may be impacted by bias-related incidents. To provide recommendations…
Reproductive Justice Conference One of the Women’s Center’s signature programs, the Reproductive Justice Conference (RJC) is an annual event hosted every March as part of our Women’s History Month programming. We use SisterSong’s definition of reproductive justice, described as “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.” From access to menstrual products and reproductive health care, to abortion rights and alternative birth options, reproductive justice is a wide umbrella under which many feminist, womanist, and social justice projects fall.The Duke Reproductive Justice Conference is our way…
Linda Capers Director She/Her Linda serves as Director of the Center for Multicultural Affairs. She provides oversight of our orientation programs, Organic & Physics learning communities, our annual signature program, Unity Through Diversity (UTD). She also advises student organizations which keeps her connected to the way students experience leadership development. As a former classroom teacher, Linda finds that working in higher ed has been the perfect venue to expand her interests in student development. The endless opportunities to view students’ unique and diverse experiences through a multicultural lens has been a remarkable career experience. Professional interests include but are not limited…
The Center for Multicultural Affairs serves as a resource for all students, with a focus on all students of color, on campus. The CMA is committed to expanding and supporting our Duke community through programmatic, advising, support, and engagement efforts informed through an inclusive and socially-just lens. The Center for Multicultural Affairs (CMA) promotes community engagement, multicultural education, leadership development, social justice education , and identity exploration among the student population. The Center for Multicultural Affairs staff are located in the Bryan Student Center. Located on the first level, our physical Center will house student affinity spaces, coalition and multipurpose…
Center for Multicultural Affairs Land Acknowledgement The Center for Multicultural Affairs acknowledges that the land our center and the greater university occupies are the ancestral lands of the Shakori, Eno and Tuscarora people. Today, North Carolina recognizes 8 tribes: Coharie, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi Saponi, Haliwa Saponi, Waccamaw Siouan, Sappony, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee. We recognize those peoples for whom these were ancestral lands as well as the many Indigenous people who live and work in the region today. Pronunciation Guide shuh • cori EE-noh TUSK-UH-RAW-RUH co-HAIR-ee LUM-bee ma-HAIR-in OAK-uh-NEE-chee suh-PONY HA-lih-WAH suh-PONY WOK-uh-ma Soo-uhn suh-PONY cheh·ruh·kee
Our Story Knowing your story is important and our Center wants to share ours with you. Check back in as we continue to update this page! This timeline is a work in progress! Have a contribution that you believe is missing from our timeline? Is there information you’d like to correct? Please contact a.espaillat@duke.edu. Center for Multicultural Affairs’ 50th Anniversary Conversations In commemoration of the Center for Multicultural Affairs at Duke University’s 50th Anniversary celebration, we sat down with former Deans and Directors of CMA past. Watch here:
Alex Espaillat Assistant Director She/Her/Ella Alex joined Duke in June 2022 and currently serves as an Assistant Director in the CMA. In their current role, Alex’s work focuses on the Latinx/o/é communities at Duke, providing programs and services in the areas of community engagement, multicultural education, social justice education, and leadership development. In addition to this, Alex leads and is responsible for the majority of the marketing and communications functions of the Center as well as encouraging coalition building resources. Alex is a Latina scholar practitioner who claims both Charlotte, North Carolina and New York as home. She is a two-time alumna…
Our goal is to create an inclusive climate for students, staff, faculty, and alumnx with marginalized sexual orientations, romantic orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions through education, advocacy, support, mentoring, academic engagement, and providing space. > Connect. Learn. Grow. The CSGD is a community of resources, support and inspiration. Education Stay Educated Resources Access Resources Pronouns Understand Pronouns Student Groups Get involved No Pride for Some We recognize the ways that racism and whiteness is embedded within the LGBTQIA+ communities. We are committed to doing our work with intersectional social justice lens that names and works to disrupt impacts of…